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Farms and farmhouses in Templeton

19th century

All, including the farmers paying rent to the Chichester family and listed in the account book. 

Notes - the ag.labs who are listed in the notes usually appear at that 'address' in the census, the cottages being part of the estate. Only two farms were not rented. Those owned by the Chichester family are in bold. These farms were not static. Many seem to have been sub-let, extra fields were rented in some years and many were combined with parts of others, leaving farmhouses standing empty. In one example James Sayer is listed as a farmer, not just an ag.lab. but he was presumably still living in his (possibly) tied cottage. Any others in the same column as the farmers were lodging in the farmhouse itself.

Name Size in acres Farmer Dates Notes
Ashey 40 Edmund Bond 1881 a lot of cottages here
Cleave, Cleve, Clieve 66 George Lock   2 men
  63 William Tancock 1881 1 man in '51
Cloggs Moor 42 William Rowe 1851,1881 1 man.
Cloggs Living - George Jackson c.1847-64 less than 1 acre
Colston 145 George Maunder 1851 fundholder & farmer; 5 men
(Great) Esworthy 65   1851 James Besley ag.lab
  65 John Gould 1881 1 boy
Little Esworthy 40 Henry White 1851 2 men
Leonard Moor   -unoccupied- 1851-81 1 ag.lab (dairyman)
Loosland 140 Thomas Bidgood
Thomas Hayman		 1851 2 men.
Bailiff
  140 Ann Southcot 1881 ...
Low & High  171 James Beedell 1846-52 two farmhouses, one split into smaller unit (22 acres)
Town Living (same) Henry Blake 1852-64 and one unoccupied farmhouse
Low Town Living   -unoccupied- 1851,1881 at least 1 ag.lab here

 

 22 James Sayer 1851 sub-let? but in a cottage?
Middle Town Living   Henry Mallett 1842 farmhse buildings,crts,gdns
from 148 Sarah Mallett 1846 separate at this time
1846  179 George Wreford 1846-52 5 men
combined   Richard Westron 1852-64  
 with 336 Joseph Waller 1881 4 men
Partridge 148 ------ 1851 2 ag.men
    -------- 1881 Thomas Chown-bailiff
         
Lower N.Combe 313 William Blake 1846-64 1 outdoor man.
combined with 166 James Rowe 1881 1 man 1 boy
Higher N.Combe   William Blake 1846-64  
         
Middle N.Combe 100 William Stevens 1846-50 2 men
    Catherine " (Kate) 1850-62 "    (William's widow)
  137 Robert West 1862-81 ...
         
Lower South Combe
& Landfoot 1863 only		   George Besley 1835-64 George Jackson in a cottage attached to the farmhouse till c.1847
Higher South Combe 366 George Besley 1851 census; 12 men
South Combe Farm 270 George Webber 1881 census
         
Starraton 140 Robert Blake 1846-50  
    Samuel Blake 1850-53 4 men
  160 Thomas Tapp 1881 1 man

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